Ente Süßsauer gave a good example of 4 reviews which one might compare it wouldn't be unreasonable for a person to be considering all of those cars and if they didn't read a thing in any of the articles and picked on number rating alone do you think they'd have made a good decision?

I'm aware that the surfaces offroad are not as easily designed for as even pavement and that in offroad racing tire selection and alteration by grooving is a crucial area.

your points are well thought out and I agree that this is an issue they have, but if you just read the articles and ignore the numbers it's fine

yeah it's probably closer to 60% rear depending on if you've got a passenger, a winch and what not. which means there may be some performance gains for running a slightly narrower tire in the front, but then you need to carry 2 different spares.

contact patch size is based on weight distribution, if the vehicle has even weight distribution they should be equal, if it has a heavy rear weight bias then the fronts should be smaller.

I don't disagree with any of those points.

I think you're at least partially wrong about the half ton market.

For the last 10-15 years I flew them 3 times a year from BMI to ATL always thought they were fine. I flew Southwest for the first time a couple weeks ago and I decidedly do not enjoy their seating system. AirTran will be missed.

yes obviously the sea water won't be used to directly cool the equipment more likely to cool the condenser. Although maybe they could recycle the heat back into the power generation system on a nuclear boat.

then it's quite advantageous that the system is mounted on a boat in the middle of the ocean isn't! That will be a problem when it goes ashore

only if better= more buttons, other than number of buttons it looks way cheaper. Beyond the wheel the interior of that soul screams cheap way more than the chevy, which isn't to say that it doesn't, I hate the gauge cluster "motorcycle inspired" BARF!

Maybe, but even in the US with our incentives only 0.6% of our car sales were EV's last year, granted that is double the previous year, but even for us to reach their goal we'd need an order of magnitude increase, not double.

5th Gear

The whole point of NASCAR was/is that it is an endurance series, that's why they have 500 mile races, that's why the points are the way they are with a linear distribution of points per position. That's also why the chase system doesn't quite make sense to me.

I agree that epa economy ratings are hopelessly optimistic and the final tweaks probably won't skew the results by 20%.

we're taking about fuel consumption not emissions, so yes the calibration can make a huge difference if they set it to run safe (rich)

was that a preproduction model? if so there's a good chance it didn't have the final engine calibration in it.

it's definitely impressive, I'd love to know how much work and to go into the truck along the way to get it through. I assume being factory they had a couple spare everything on hand.

funny they both use the same supercharger, TVS 2300

looks like some good cheap practice for US's missile defense systems, see how quickly they can find a launch and how effectively they can track it.